Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at gunpoint. Soon afterward, a dishy dame convinces Larry Storm, Adrian's rival, to play amateur detective for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who's one step behind a cold-blooded killer - and Storm had better start running.... "Cancelled in Red" appeared in "Argosy" magazine, touted as the $10,000 prize winner of the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. The novel also grabbed the $1,000 Red...
Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at gunpoint...
Just as "Cancelled in Red" took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd.
"The 24th Horse" gallops after a host of hard-faced people, some of them with more money than is good for them - and others, unfortunately, with far too little.
From the minute Johnny Curtin drives a coupe with the body of a murdered girl in the rumble seat to Inspector Bradley's door, this novel keeps moving - fast "The 24th Horse" is a tense, absorbing mystery novel that...
Just as "Cancelled in Red" took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racke...
Luke Bradley is no stranger to murder, but the stakes have never been higher-the defense of American lives from Japanese forces. The action begins when screenwriter Chris Wells travels from the west coast to a naval repair base on a barren island. Amid angry rumors and suspicion, Bradley and Wells race to unmask a saboteur before the civilian laborers turn upon each other. "An unusually well-plotted and well-written story with the suspects limited to the members of a small group. Action, suspense and plenty of thrills from start right down to finish...." - New York Times "A sharp, fast,...
Luke Bradley is no stranger to murder, but the stakes have never been higher-the defense of American lives from Japanese forces. The action begins whe...
